Artfull Mementos of a Writer's Life
Pictured: untitled (portrait of Helen), by Shirley Aley Campbell, 1960s, pastel on paper

Helen Cullinan's Collection at HeightsArts

accumulated over 40 years of her involvement with the arts as a student and as the arts reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Artists include Anna Arnold, Herbert Ascherman, Louis Bosa, Shirley Aley Campbell, H.C. Cassill, Clara Deike, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph O'Sickey, Pablo Picasso, Dorothy Rutka Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Viktor Schreckengost, Phyllis Seltzer, Phyllis Sloane, William Sommer, Julian Stanczak, Paul Travis, and more.

Opening reception March 19 6-9
through April 24

HeightsArts gallery
2173 Lee Road
Hours Wednesday through Saturday noon to 10 p.m.
Sundays 1 to 5
Information: 216-371-3344

HeightsArts is next door to Parnell's

March 20 at 7 pm
Forest Hill Church, at Lee and Monticello in Cleveland Heights

Featuring the music of Bach in the intimate candlelit sanctuary
Free. Plentiful, lighted parking.

Cellist Rene Schiffer (playing a cello suite), Organist Anne Wilson (playing the powerful Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor), the choirs of Forest Hill Church (singing the motet, "Jesu, Meine Freude" and two choruses sung by the youth choir)

Information: Anne Wilson - acwping@adelphia.net

A Call for Entries! April 2 from 1 to 3 pm

Loganberry Books & Strong Bindery
13015 Larchmere Boulevard, Shaker Heights
216-795-9800

11 a.m. set up
1 p.m. exhibition opening
2 p.m. judging, then eating !

Free for all to view, but tickets for voting and eating will be $2

Edible Book entries welcomed! All entries must be entirely edible and have something to do with books. There is no fee for contest participants, and each participant will be given a special handcrafted miniature book pin by Strong Bindery. What is an Edible Book? Exactly that: an artists' book that is edible, made out of food rather than paper and board. Choose your favorite food (chocolate, cheese, carrots?) and create a book (novel, picture book, biography?). Be creative, and have fun.

People of all ages are invited to participate and to register their entry with Loganberry Books

Information: 216-795-9800 or harriett@logan.com

A booksigning with Cleveland Heights author Gail Ghetia Bellamy will also be featured this year. Bellamy's nostalgic Cleveland Food Memories is a treat for Cleveland memories, published by local press Gray and Company (2004, large paperback, 112 pages, lavishly illustrated, $17.95)

Books2Eat

a new instrumental music camp for students currently enrolled in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School district.

Application deadline: April 1

The camp, to be held June 20 to 25 at Wiley Middle School, is for students completing 5th,6th,7th and 8th grade who have a minimum of two years experience in their school instrumental program or one year of private lessons.

The camp fee is $125
Scholarships are available.

Information: Reaching Heights 216.932.5110

By Stephen Sondheim Presented by Heights Youth Theatre
Wiley Middle School Auditorium, 2181 Miramar Blvd., University Heights

March 18 at 7:30 pm
March 19 at 2:00 pm

Information: 216.556.0235

Into the Woods

March 15-19

CityMusic Cleveland -- the newest professional chamber orchestra and arts outreach organization in town -- invites you to enjoy its FREE concerts. Conducted by James Gaffigan (Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra), the program has a Spring theme -- including Copland's Appalachian Spring, Schubert's Symphony #5 in Bb Major, Piazzolla's Primavera Portena from his Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, and Haydn's Violin Concerto #1 in C Major, featuring the teenage prize-winning virtuoso Jinjoo Cho.

Tuesday, March 15, 7:30 pm
Plymouth Church
2860 Coventry Road, Shaker Heights

Friday, March 18, 2 pm
Judson Manor
1890 East 107th Street, University Circle

Friday, March 18, 8 pm
United Methodist Church
34201 Eddy Road, Willoughby Hills

Saturday, March 19, 8 pm
Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus
3649 East 65th Street, Slavic Village

Families with children are welcome. Donations will be accepted.

Information: 216.321.8273

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